F. Andrew Hanssen

F. Andrew Hanssen is professor of economics at Clemson University and a 2016 Lone Mountain Fellow at PERC. His areas of research include institutions, law and economics, political economy, and industrial organization. Before getting a Ph.D., he was a management consultant, working in Europe, Latin America, and the Far East.

Environmentalists, politicians, and scholars express concern about a "race to the bottom" in environmental policy. Yet economic theory indicates that a race to the bottom in environmental policy is highly unlikely, and there is little evidence that such races have, in fact, occurred.